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    Online Harassment

    73% of internet users have witnessed online harassment; 40% have experienced it personally.

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    Online Harassment

    40% of internet users have personally experienced online harassment, from the mild to the severe; 73% have witnessed it happen to others.

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    Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence’

    Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms did not provide new outlets for the discussion of the Snowden-NSA revelations. People who thought their social media friends disagreed with them were less likely to discuss the issues in person and online.

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    Building Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel

    In early 2014, Pew Research Center set out to build a probability-based panel – the American Trends Panel – to supplement our traditional method of data collection in the U.S. – the random digit dial (RDD) telephone survey. Here’s how we built and managed the panel, and what we learned from it in 2014.

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    Turks Divided on Erdogan and the Country’s Direction

    As Turkey prepares to vote for its first ever directly elected president, a new Pew Research Center survey finds the Turkish public is divided over the main contender for the office, current Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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    The News Environment in Macon, Georgia

    Located in the state’s geographic center, about an hour and twenty minutes’ drive southeast of Atlanta, Macon is known as “the Heart of Georgia.” The city along the Ocmulgee River traces its founding to a 19th-century fort at the waterway’s mouth. The region’s military roots endure today, as neighboring Robins Air Force Base continues to […]

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    How People are Changing Their Own Behavior

    The 87% of respondents in this sample who say they had heard at least a little about the government’s surveillance programs were asked a series of questions about whether they had changed some of the ways they use technology. This section of the report covers their answers. Some are altering their use of information and […]

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    Elaborations: More Expert Responses

    Each increment of growth in bandwidth has enabled new communication, new participation in communities, more effective outreach to broader social networks, more access to information, and more algorithmic interventions to sort and filter data. Most of the experts in this canvassing see all those trends being amplified in the decade to come as gigabit connectivity […]

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    Political Polarization & Media Habits

    Liberals and conservatives turn to and trust strikingly different news sources. And across-the-board liberals and conservatives are more likely than others to interact with like-minded individuals.

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